Mary Oliver, from “Marengo.” [ID in alt text]
An important reminder for this Trans Day of Visibility: If you cannot be out and visible right now for any reason, whether for safety due to the increasingly dangerous legislation being passed or for other reasons, please remember that you are still here, you are still real, and you still matter.
on death with 1. lilies abounded, @petfurniture, twitter; 2. frances molina, “o’death”
the longing is killing me
lucille clifton the book of light: “climbing” \ pia brambley
“The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind”
-Rodger kamenetz, from Terra infirma
“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
— W. S. Merwin, Separation
I wish being in love was enough. I wish it counted for anything at all.
a.k.a. what if i had a lot of feelings about beatrice and lilith being divorced two sides of the same fucked up coin
Hera Lindsay Bird - Mirror Traps // Mitski - I Don't Smoke // Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre // David Jones - Love As The Stars Went Out. // Michael Cunningham - The Hours // Jessica Helen Lopez - “Poem for My Beloved,” The Blood Poems // Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice // Hillary Gravendyk - Quarrel // Vita Sackville-West - letter to Virginia Woolf // Joey Comeau - A Softer World
on feeling
anne carson red doc (via @metamorphesque) \\ kazuo ishiguro never let me go (via @liriostigre) \\ franz kafka the diaries of franz kafka, 1910-1913: "january 3, 1912" (via @dailykafka) \\ jeanette winterson why be happy when you could be normal (via @strykerlancer) \\ søren kierkegaard (1839) (via @tamsoj) \\ cameron awkward-rich the child formally known as _________ \\ jean-paul sartre nausea (via @metamorphesque) \\ adam wolfond the ripples are ongoing acts \\ catherine gildiner good morning, monster: five heroic journeys to emotional recovery (via @weltenwellen)
LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS
Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
🧚🏻♀️ this is the good luck fairy and she’s here to bless u with good luck for the rest of ur life
― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea
[text ID: The centre of every poem is this: / I have loved you. / I have had to deal with that.]